How to Use CPU in a Sentence

CPU

abbreviation or noun
  • These structures don’t exist at the level of the CPU.
    Stephen Cass, IEEE Spectrum, 23 Sep. 2025
  • As for internal components—things like the CPU, graphics card, and storage—there’s no contest.
    PC Magazine, 22 Sep. 2025
  • This 14-incher will come in two distinct flavors, defined by the CPU family.
    John Burek, PC Magazine, 29 May 2026
  • The Performance tab shows real-time graphs for CPU, memory, disk, and network.
    Ken Colburn, AZCentral.com, 12 Jan. 2026
  • Arm is calling the new data center central processing unit the AGI CPU.
    Katie Tarasov, CNBC, 24 Mar. 2026
  • In most cases, a faster GPU like this will have a far larger impact on your gaming performance than a change in CPU.
    PC Magazine, 25 Oct. 2025
  • Intel’s rally has coincided with a resurgence of demand for its central processing unit, or CPU.
    Kai Nicol-Schwarz, CNBC, 18 May 2026
  • This means all hardware resources—CPU, RAM, and storage—are 100% reserved for you.
    Gabriel Zamora, PC Magazine, 8 Mar. 2026
  • Geekbench 6 measures the CPU's performance on basic computing tasks.
    Eric Zeman, PC Magazine, 9 Mar. 2026
  • The analysts see execution risks to its in-house CPU initiative and memory supply constraints as a headwind to near-term growth.
    Jim Cramer, CNBC, 7 Apr. 2026
  • This is similar to the central processing unit (CPU) in a conventional computer.
    Georgina Jedikovska, Interesting Engineering, 9 July 2026
  • The customer response to the ARM AGI CPU looks terrific.
    Jeff Marks, CNBC, 6 May 2026
  • So 1 meter of this new material is roughly equivalent to one old-school computer processing unit (CPU).
    Christopher McFadden, Interesting Engineering, 24 Jan. 2026
  • CoreWeave will be the first to deploy future Nvidia products, including storage systems and a new central processing unit, or CPU.
    Sofia Chierchio, Forbes.com, 26 Jan. 2026
  • The latest MacBooks released in March come with a higher price tag and Apple’s latest M5 CPU.
    Katie Tarasov,kif Leswing, CNBC, 2 June 2026
  • The most important of these processors is the central processing unit, or CPU, which runs operating systems and applications.
    Kaif Shaikh, Interesting Engineering, 4 Jan. 2026
  • Alongside other upgrades for gaming and a generally faster CPU, there are also improvements to memory that make multitasking on the tablet smoother.
    PC Magazine, 15 Oct. 2025
  • Our thesis was confirmed when the company reported earnings a few weeks ago, but there was some disappointment around supply constraints, limiting sales upside of its new in-house CPU.
    Jeff Marks, CNBC, 18 May 2026
  • Some variants also feature a low-power Core T-series CPU, which enables an extra Flex I/O port on the rear panel.
    PC Magazine, 16 Oct. 2025
  • As far as the quarter on deck, though, Arm's revenues will be driven by royalties and licensing fees because the AGI CPU isn't on the market yet.
    Kevin Stankiewicz, CNBC, 3 May 2026
  • One with a nine-core CPU, the other with a 10-core CPU, and both have 10-core graphics units and 16-core neural processors.
    Matthew Buzzi, PC Magazine, 23 May 2026
  • These designs are delivered as code that describes how to construct a CPU, which is then manufactured by partner companies such as TSMC.
    Kaif Shaikh, Interesting Engineering, 4 Jan. 2026
  • The chip giant announced its first data center CPU, Grace, in 2021, and the next generation, Vera, is now in production.
    Katie Tarasov, CNBC, 13 Mar. 2026
  • The energy savings varied widely over the workloads, but on average our chip consumed one-seventieth the energy of a CPU, and performed the computation on average eight times as fast.
    Olivia Hsu, IEEE Spectrum, 28 Apr. 2026
  • Baruch, the founder and president of Blue Line Capital, highlighted Arm as an attractive name within the central processing unit, or CPU, space.
    Lisa Kailai Han, CNBC, 23 Apr. 2026
  • Dual fans join a (relatively) large vapor chamber that covers the CPU, GPU, and memory to help the system run smoothly in a compact environment.
    Matthew Buzzi, PC Magazine, 7 Sep. 2025
  • As part of the collaboration, CoreWeave will be among the first to deploy forthcoming Nvidia products, including storage systems and a new central processing unit, or CPU.
    Dina Bass, Bloomberg, 26 Jan. 2026
  • Intel remains Jim's favorite stock in the portfolio due to the company's growing central processing unit (CPU) opportunity in AI and its foundry business.
    Alexa Lomonaco, CNBC, 16 July 2026
  • The chip, dubbed the Arm AGI CPU, will be specifically designed for AI workloads in data centers, and is being co-developed with Meta.
    Alexei Oreskovic, Fortune, 25 Mar. 2026
  • The plan requires continuing to shrink transistors, moving power and possibly clock signals beneath a CPU’s silicon, and ever-tighter 3D-chip integration.
    IEEE Spectrum, 24 May 2023

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